Wind Waker HD

[Super Hero #5]

I'm not too sure about The Wind Waker HD. The Wind Waker is one of my favourite games of all time, one of the main reasons for that is the uniqueness of the visuals, a few games have tried to emulate its looks, but I don't think there's any game before or since TWW that looks the same way.

As standard video game graphics I think TWW HD looks fantastic, yet at the same time generic. A bit like Pixar films, they all look brilliant, yet they all look very similar. Like I mentioned beforehand, there's nothing else out there that really looks like the original Wind Waker, yet we've seen a lot of games/movies/cartoons that look like TWW HD.

I don't think you can improve the visuals of something like TWW, because the whole point of its graphics wasn't to be super realistic or super HD, it was to be original and artistically beautiful. Say what you want about TWW, but even the most insufferable members of the Zelda fanbase who insist every game post Majora's Mask is a pile of crap, will have a hard time denying that TWW's graphics are incredibly original and beautiful artistically. I can't help but feel 'upgrading' TWW's graphics to HD causes them to lose that originally and artistic beauty as a side-effect.

The movie equivalent of this would be remaking The Nightmare Before Christmas so that it looks like The Incredibles, it just wouldn't work, and fans of the original film would hate it.

If this new HD version adds lots of new content like new dungeons or whatever, then I'll definitely get it, but if it's just a Ocarina of Time 3D-esque remake with barely any added content then I'll pass on it, because there's no way it'll replace the original TWW in my eyes.

Personally I feel a HD version of Twilight Princess would have worked much much better.